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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 23, 2011 -> 09:56 AM) Nor that there are serious racial disparities in the justice system. Not really OJ was found not guilty.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Sep 23, 2011 -> 05:24 PM) BINGO! So when the city is negotiating wages with the union, at least part of the benefits are controlled by the city and not the union?

All I said was it has a great cover.

Xanadu has a great album cover

So we had a parent come in to discuss her child's behavior. Of course this kid basically blamed everyone else and denied everything. We get back to class and I called out the kid and his best friend who he kept throwing under the bus. I looked at the other kid and explained that "Don's" mom was here to discuss his behavior and it seems we had the wrong kid. He's been behaving but *you* keep getting him in trouble. *You* keep talking when he's trying to do his work. *You* stop him in the halls and make him tardy. So we're going to be bringing in your dad to discuss this. The kid starts telling his friend how he was lying to get out of trouble. I let them both back into class. The first kid was pissed at me. He sat there all pissed off the rest of class. His friend kept looking at him all pissed off. LOL I love kids.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 20, 2011 -> 09:41 PM) It's not - and to be honest, the biggest issue is not one person I know around here has time to reskin/recalibrate everything it would take to upgrade to 3.x. It take a lot of work, and I don't have the time nor the desire to go through a humongous upgrade. The season is over, maybe we could get it gaged? We could be back up by spring training.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Sep 22, 2011 -> 08:00 PM) It's mostly a celebration of baseball statistics and achievement. Tough to celebrate guys who achieved because of cheating, well for most people it is. So at the end of his career. and he'll need many more years of 12-15 wins, would you rather visit the hall and see a video of Mark's no hitters and him sliding on a tarp, pitching in a World Series, smiling, or Clemens, Bonds, Sosa, etc etc? Which promotes the game of baseball more? It should be a celebration, but is it when this era produced so many dark moments? That's also a reason why I believe the hall needs Frank in on the first ballot.

Bigger market and payroll teams don't need to rely on the draft. If Dunn played a 75% of his normal output, this season is vastly different. The chances of getting those stats out of Dunn versus someone you draft is usually far better. If you are a team looking for a pitcher to get you 12 wins in 2013 would you rather count on your 2010 draft or getting MB in free agency?

Unless something really weird happens, you'll have another chance.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 22, 2011 -> 04:44 PM) Sorry Balta, but this is beyond bulls***. MILLIONS of dollars and THOUSANDS of hours were spent by every level of the judicial and administrative system to make sure this guy was guilty. And how much was spent to see if he was innocent? On one hand you have the state of Georgia and their resources pushing for guilty and on the other you have a private individual and their ability to rally resources to work for free.

Sailing takes me away

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 22, 2011 -> 08:52 PM) The reason you can try to hang peavy on Cooper is that Peavys mechanical issues contributed to and caused that injury. That said, the sox always lead the league in starters innings, so keeping his guys healthy is usually one thing coop is great at. Or Kenny does a nice job of selecting players Maybe Ozzie knows how to use them

QUOTE (VictoryMC98 @ Sep 22, 2011 -> 07:29 PM) How so? There is clearly successful (trophy presentation in October) and clearly unsuccessful, 100 loss season. Then some stuff in between that changes based on any number of factors.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 22, 2011 -> 01:08 PM) Maybe they should open a Hall of Nice Guys who played Forever? Matt Stairs & Sean Casey, your plaques are ready. Instead of a hall of drug abusers and cheats? Sure. The hall is a celebration of baseball. Would you rather have Clemens and his stats in the hall for future generations to see? here is what baseball values . . . Stats and a needle in your ass. America's game

Quite right, bloody well right

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 22, 2011 -> 01:26 PM) You act as though this guy wasn't given a fair shot to prove his innocence. He offered nothing over the last 10 years to show that. A jury found him guilty on some pretty strong evidence tying him to the scene in the same clothes, eye witness testimony of him being the shooter, and ballistic evidence to support it. This wasn't some bulls***, trumped up case. Essentially what you guys are suggesting is that our criminal justice system should allow someone to delay their punishment indefinitely because who knows what he might be able to create to establish his innocence. So, credibility or reasonability of the "evidence" aside, he offered a new theory so it must be accepted as true. Actually I was pointing out the difference between life in prison and capital punishment. We have opened the gates of prison and righted, in a small way, wrongful convictions. You can never give those people the years back, but at least to you could something. There is no remedy for those that have been executed.

(oops forgot something) perfectly fine day ruined by not being wealthy and having to work

I don't see the problem, if somehow some new evidence would prove his innocence without a doubt, we can always dig him up and bring him back to life.

Do I understand this correctly? The city employees belong to a union? Further, this law allows city employees to accept positions with their union and continue to earn credit towards their city salaries? These guys are basically the city employees upper managers? Are they in some way connected to city workers while working these union jobs?

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Sep 22, 2011 -> 12:42 PM) Neither one of them belongs in the Hall Of Fame. I can't believe people are still pushing for Baines to be in there. Character and longevity are not appreciated enough IMHO.

It is better to control your own fate by playing your division as much as possible. I could do without playing the NL and add games within the AL, even more division games. I would rather lose the division by getting pummled by Detroit than the Rays or Angels (for example).

With the kind of disappointing season the team had, plus the usual solid season Merk had, I can't see the team not signing him. I must admit he is, at best, borderline HoF based on the numbers. I am hoping the sport wakes up and notices that the players who they have been honoring the past decade have not brought much honor to the game. Guys like Mark and Baines not only played well for a long time, but are solid citizens and great ambassadors to the sport. I believe that has value and should be considered in the voting. It's their entire contribution to baseball, not just stats.

There is some component of "results to expectations" that is factored in. I have watched with enjoyment seasons where the results were worse than this. But I feel the worse about this season than any other since the strike. I can't even think about watching the playoffs.

Happy Thursday, day two of our 6-week exams. Over 5,000 questions on hyperbole. What the hell do I know about hyperbole to teach these kids?

A guy like that you have to trade while his value is the highest. Imagine if we traded him in 2006 who we could have gotten for him. Damn Kenny. With all that craziness we also watched PK and MB, two of the best character players of all time.